Dybala, a free 'jewel'

Dybala celebrates his last goal against Salernitana, this past weekend. Marco Alpozzi/LaPresse (AP)

It was a custom, a joy, that will soon be forgotten.

“

!”, intoned the Juventus fans when Paulo Dybala (Laguna Larga, Argentina; 28 years old) scored a goal for the

.

In three months, however, only the echo will remain because there will be no more goals from the talented Argentine midfielder in the

, broken some negotiations that in October were made to extend a contract that ends this summer, but that over the months lost validity due to the renewed ambitions and the change in position of Juve.

“It will not continue”, resolved Maurizio Arrivabene, CEO of the Italian entity after meeting with the player's agent on Monday morning;

"It should be noted that the management does not make decisions against Juve but for Juve."

A divorce that now leaves Dybala as a free agent for the next market.

"Incredible," lamented Gustavo, Paulo's brother, on his Instagram.

Before the end of October, Dybala had accepted a renewal offer from Juventus until 2026 with a salary of around nine million -now it is 7.4- plus 2.5 in variables that contemplated the number of games played and the goals scored in addition to titles.

But the papers were not signed because the Italian club asked for more time to reorganize and because the CONI (Italian National Olympic Committee) did not recognize Jorge Antún as the player's agent -he broke up with Pierpaolo Triulzi, who negotiated his transfer from Palermo in 2015- by not meeting the requirements required by FIFA, since the businessman is dedicated to the sale of cars.

Situation that was officially corrected in January but that, after the winter market, was no longer enough.

More than anything because Juve signed striker Dusan Vlahovic from Fiorentina for 75 million and changed their road map.

“The meeting was friendly and the offer, in our opinion, adequate.

But we couldn't do another one because he would have been low and wouldn't have been respectful of Paulo's seven years at Juve, ”Arrivabene agreed hours after concluding the last and unsuccessful meeting with Antún;

“and with the arrival of Vlahovic our project has changed”.

Although from Continassa, Juve's sports city, it is pointed out that the Argentine is injured too much - in this course he has lost 30% of the matches due to various muscular injuries - and he has not emerged as the leader that was presumed with the Cristiano Ronaldo's departure

For what they offered him about six million (although better variables,

close to four million) and only two more years of contract, far from the figures and the capital status that the midfielder demanded.

And he will go free after even refusing to negotiate for him in past years, because when Barcelona asked about him they put it at 130 million, which reached 200 after Neymar's departure.

Seasoned at the Argentine Institute of Córdoba, Palermo signed La Joya when he was 18 years old, a club from which he descended to rise again before reaching Juve, where he has autographed 113 goals and 48 assists in 283 games, adorned with five

, four Italian Super Cups and four

.

From Italy, the kingdom of transfers and exchanges, there is already a suspicion of possible replacements for Dybala, including Zaniolo (Rome) and Raspadori (Sassuolo).

Nor does the Argentine lack girlfriends, since it is known of the interest of Inter, Tottenham and Atlético, although there will be more now that nothing links him to Juve, a footballer without a contract in a market that seems promising because free agents accumulate like Mbappé and Di María (PSG), Azpilicueta, Rüdiger and Christensen (Chelsea), Origi (Liverpool), Romagnoli and Kessié (Milan), Mazraoui (Ajax), Lingard and Pogba (Manchester United), Dembélé (Barcelona), Lacazette ( Arsenal), Bernardeschi (Juve)…

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